The capability to switch from light to dark text will become a common standard for digital displays as improvements in screen definition, text rendering, HUDs and augmented reality become more...
The capability to switch from light to dark text will become a common standard for digital displays as improvements in screen definition, text rendering, HUDs and augmented reality become more common. Even in this advent of new types of displays, I feel pretty confident predicting that there will still remain a widespread demand for a light page background, such as with the typeset copy of a printed book. (As an example, imagine that you're sitting in the dark, flipping through the glowing white pages of a novel on a translucent screen, or projected onto your retina.) I base my presumption in the various optometry studies I've encountered, which revealed how legibility prefers a light background and sufficiently contrasting text. Some amount of recent research also contradicts this theory, specifically considering certain eyesight disorders.
Depending upon the desired aesthetic, in graphic design for both print and screen within the commercial – largely non-technical – realm, the enlarged typeset elements of a page (headings, call-outs, pull quotes, etc.) will frequently appear in light on dark, for the sake of emphasis. Any sufficient amount of typeset copy is nearly always dark, reasonably high-contrast text, for the sake of the commonly expected standard, which has adapted historically from the hand scripted pages of manuscripts before the invention of the printing press. Bucking this standard has been a common habit since the advent of hypertext, especially in online content that falls outside of the typically commercial realm (e.g. sales and promotional material).
There exists a current popular trend among today's leading digital content providers to provide a dark theme option, secondarily available to a primary light theme. These implementations are always an optional alternative, with the primary intent of providing a "night mode" experience. Though blue light can be filtered, night mode also intends to reduce the amount of blue light exposure without individually filtering the blue light channel separately, which studies overwhelmingly show benefits sleep habits.
Night mode also pleases some particular aesthetic preferences. The option to have a selection of dark themes available is specifically a figment of design trends for digital displays, generally targeted at the tech sector, though probably unlikely to ever become widespread in the overall aesthetics of graphic design. A certain amount of the trend in popular appeal for dark themes arose from the influence and wildly popular appeal of hacker culture. The dark themes on Tildes are in wide use in software applications such as terminal programs, freely liberated and provided by some generous graphic designers who work in digital media, particularly attentive to concepts and best practices of color theory and text legibility.
I personally benefit from dark mode any time I'm surfing in the dark, or when I'd otherwise like to be discreet, perhaps while lying beside a sleeping individual, walking my dogs at night, or awaiting a bus in a sketchy neighborhood. I have also frequently preferred a low-contrast, light scheme on a reduce brightness for the same reasons. I try to have fun with it, but your mileage may vary.
The capability to switch from light to dark text will become a common standard for digital displays as improvements in screen definition, text rendering, HUDs and augmented reality become more common. Even in this advent of new types of displays, I feel pretty confident predicting that there will still remain a widespread demand for a light page background, such as with the typeset copy of a printed book. (As an example, imagine that you're sitting in the dark, flipping through the glowing white pages of a novel on a translucent screen, or projected onto your retina.) I base my presumption in the various optometry studies I've encountered, which revealed how legibility prefers a light background and sufficiently contrasting text. Some amount of recent research also contradicts this theory, specifically considering certain eyesight disorders.
Depending upon the desired aesthetic, in graphic design for both print and screen within the commercial – largely non-technical – realm, the enlarged typeset elements of a page (headings, call-outs, pull quotes, etc.) will frequently appear in light on dark, for the sake of emphasis. Any sufficient amount of typeset copy is nearly always dark, reasonably high-contrast text, for the sake of the commonly expected standard, which has adapted historically from the hand scripted pages of manuscripts before the invention of the printing press. Bucking this standard has been a common habit since the advent of hypertext, especially in online content that falls outside of the typically commercial realm (e.g. sales and promotional material).
There exists a current popular trend among today's leading digital content providers to provide a dark theme option, secondarily available to a primary light theme. These implementations are always an optional alternative, with the primary intent of providing a "night mode" experience. Though blue light can be filtered, night mode also intends to reduce the amount of blue light exposure without individually filtering the blue light channel separately, which studies overwhelmingly show benefits sleep habits.
Night mode also pleases some particular aesthetic preferences. The option to have a selection of dark themes available is specifically a figment of design trends for digital displays, generally targeted at the tech sector, though probably unlikely to ever become widespread in the overall aesthetics of graphic design. A certain amount of the trend in popular appeal for dark themes arose from the influence and wildly popular appeal of hacker culture. The dark themes on Tildes are in wide use in software applications such as terminal programs, freely liberated and provided by some generous graphic designers who work in digital media, particularly attentive to concepts and best practices of color theory and text legibility.
I personally benefit from dark mode any time I'm surfing in the dark, or when I'd otherwise like to be discreet, perhaps while lying beside a sleeping individual, walking my dogs at night, or awaiting a bus in a sketchy neighborhood. I have also frequently preferred a low-contrast, light scheme on a reduce brightness for the same reasons. I try to have fun with it, but your mileage may vary.